In the long run, the climate didn’t floor the balloons at this 12 months’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, however NBC’s Al Roker nearly received shut down by a strolling, speaking stick of butter. Significantly.

The As we speak veteran was dealing with his internet hosting duties for the annual New York Metropolis shindig on Thursday morning when he was interrupted twice on the road by a dude adorned as butter. The primary time, Roker tried to take management of the state of affairs by charging the yellow costumed gentleman, giving him an on-air shove and declaring “I hate to butter you up, however you’ve received to maneuver on.”

It wasn’t that profitable an try.

Not solely did America unfold across the second on-line, however the butter man in query returned to hang-out Roker once more later within the day. “Butter your turkey, butter your ham!” the unnamed stick proclaimed. Second time spherical, Roker went for comedian timing slightly than bodily contact.

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“And that’s why all people loves clowns,” he stated to the digital camera and viewing viewers.

Talking of that viewing viewers, rankings for the 2019 march by the long-lasting retailer have been principally about even with 2018. Broadcast from 9 AM-noon ET on the Comcast-owned community, the 93rd Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade averaged 22.1 million units of eyeballs, in line with Nielsen. Packing Central Park West with performances by the likes of the Tonight Present’s Jimmy Fallon and The Roots and Broadway reveals plus the array of lower-flying-than-usual balloons reminiscent of SpongeBob SquarePants, newbies Dr. Seuss’ Inexperienced Eggs and Ham and Astronaut Snoopy, yesterday’s parade dipped 7% in complete viewers from final 12 months.

The third largest leisure providing of the 12 months to this point after the Academy Awards on ABC and the post-Tremendous Bowl preview of the James Corden-hosted World’s Greatest on CBS, the 2019 Macy’s parade beat the 20 million who tuned in for the Grammys for a second time in a row.

Take a look at the important thing demographic of adults 18-49, yesterday’s parade snagged a 5.5 ranking. Much like total viewers, that result’s a slip of eight% from final 12 months.

In one other 12 months of minor declines, don’t really feel too dangerous for NBC proper now as you get your Black Friday on. In what is without doubt one of the largest small-screen days of the 12 months, NBC once more had the double menace of the primetime NFL sport that captured many people throughout our post-turkey meals coma.